Verification of four-dimensional photon dose calculations

Medical Physics

Volumn 36, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 3438-3447

  Vinogradskiy, Yevgeniy Y ^a   Balter, Peter ^a   Followill, David S ^a   Alvarez, Paola E ^a   White, R Allen ^a   Starkschall, George ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Deformable phantoms; Four dimensional dose calculations; Four dimensional treatment planning; Respiratory motion

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; RADIOTHERAPY; TIME AND MOTION STUDY;

DOSE CALCULATION; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; PHILIPS MEDICAL SYSTEMS; RESPIRATORY MOTIONS; STATISTICALLY SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCE; THERMOLUMINESCENT DOSIMETERS; TREATMENT PLANNING; TREATMENT PLANNING SYSTEMS;

PHANTOMS;

ACCURACY; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; DEVICE; DOSIMETRY; PHANTOM; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; THERMOLUMINESCENCE DOSIMETER; TREATMENT PLANNING; VALIDATION STUDY;

EID: 68149100829     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3157233     Document Type: Article

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